The Wild Card races promise plenty of drama between now and Sunday's season finale. But don't sleep on the runaway division leaders.

The Astros and Yankees already sit in the clubhouse with 102 wins, and the Dodgers reached 100 Sunday, meaning the upcoming postseason has already tied for the most clubs with triple-digit win totals in a single campaign -- done six other times, including last year. But the Braves and Twins are also just four wins away from making it a record five 100-win teams; truly uncharted territory.

This is a have and have-not season of epic proportions -- there are four 100-loss teams, too -- and it’s all setting up for a huge clash of the titans in October. The Twins could give the American League three 100-win clubs for the second straight year, but this would be the first season in the six-division era (stretching back to the dawn of the Wild Card in 1994-95) in which a league saw all three of its division champs reach triple digits.

A quintet of century-win giants could also set up some mammoth October matchups. Postseason history contains 13 different series in which both teams finished the season with 100 wins, and we’ve been blessed with several in the past two years: The 108-win Red Sox had to go through the 100-win Yankees and 103-win Astros just to reach last year’s World Series, and the ’17 Fall Classic had the thrilling battle between the 101-win Astros and 104-win Dodgers. But those are the only three century-win showdowns of the Wild Card Era; baseball hadn’t seen one before that since the 1977 Yankees (100 wins) bested the Royals (102) in the ALCS.

Last October was the first in history to feature multiple series with two 100-plus win teams, but we could have three in the coming weeks. If the Twins reach the century mark, they could play the AL East champion Yankees in the ALDS, with the winner of that potentially facing the AL West champion Astros in the ALCS for a chance to potentially play the 100-win Dodgers or, maybe, the 100-win Braves in the World Series. That would mark the ninth Fall Classic pitting two 100-plus win clubs against each other, but just the second in the last five decades.

World Series featuring two 100+ win teams
2017: Astros (101 wins) def. Dodgers (104)
1970: Orioles (108) def. Reds (102)
1969: Mets (100) def. Orioles (109)
1942: Cardinals (106) def. Yankees (103)
1941: Yankees (101) def. Dodgers (100)
1931: Cardinals (101) def. Philadelphia A’s (107)
1912: Red Sox (105) def. Giants (103)
1910: A’s (102) def. Cubs (104)

With this year’s division champions carrying so much brawn into October, could we see another postseason milestone fall? The record for most combined wins between two series participants is 212, when the 114-win Yankees swept the 98-win Padres in the 1998 World Series. Right behind that battle are two 211-win showdowns: The aforementioned 108-win Red Sox of last fall beat the 103-win Astros in the ALCS, and the 95-win Yankees slayed the 116-win Mariners in the ’01 ALCS. This year’s Astros and Yankees would need to rack up wins this week and then prevail in Round 1 to set up a showdown, but that kind of history remains in play.

The most intriguing view of all of this? That might come from those on the outside looking in, because the Cardinals and the two Wild Card Game winners would have a steep mountain to climb. Only six teams, including last year's Red Sox, have beaten multiple 100-plus win opponents in a single postseason.

But, if the Twins or Braves do end up reaching the century mark this week, St. Louis or either Wild Card winner might need to slay three 100-win titans to claim the championship. If they survive their three-team dogfight with the Brewers and Cubs, the Cardinals’ reward for winning the NL Central might be consecutive matchups against the Braves, Dodgers and then any one of the AL's potentially three-headed, 100-win monster in the Astros, Yankees or Twins. Same goes for either play-in winner, particularly in the AL where, as we mentioned earlier, all three division winners waiting for the Wild Card winner could boast triple-digit win totals.

In short, this season could finish as top-heavy as any in big league history -- and that means this year’s champion will truly have earned its title the hard way. There’s simply no easy path to the Commissioner’s Trophy.